Broadcom pauses sale of Carbon Black as EUC deal goes through

A potentially $1 billion deal by semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom to sell a security software business it acquired with its $61 billion purchase of VMware last year has reportedly been put on hold, if not abandoned.

Investment firm KKR had agreed to buy Carbon Black along with VMware’s entire end-user computing (EUC) business, including VMware’s Workspace ONE and Horizon offerings, in a deal valued at about $4 billion. However, when Broadcom finalized its $3.8 billion…